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Run Kubernetes on MySQL, Postgres, sqlite, not etcd.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 0 stories, 14 comments · first 2021-06-10 · latest 2026-06-30

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  1. It's possible they are using kine: https://github.com/k3s-io/kine
    comment by stackskipton · 2026-06-30 · in Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue
  2. …worth pointing out that sometimes the choice of database forces one towards a certain design. [1] https://github.com/k3s-io/kine/blob/648a2daa/pkg/logstructur...
    comment by koito17 · 2026-04-30 · in Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file
  3. …would deliver better throughput since those backends don't need to perform consenus operations. https://github.com/k3s-io/kine
    comment by phrotoma · 2025-11-24 · in Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster
  4. See https://github.com/k3s-io/kine , k3s uses this to shim etcd to MySQL, Postgres and sqlite
    comment by davidgl · 2025-10-19 · in K8s with 1M nodes
  5. …API server can mostly be a thin shell over etcd. But etcd itself while so common is not sacrosanct. https://github.com/k3s-io/kine is a reasonably adequate substitute for etcd. sqlite, MySQL, PostgreSQL can also be substituted in. Etcd is…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-10-18 · in K8s with 1M nodes
  6. …within existing API via KEP (cri-o already does userns configuration based on annotations) [0] - https://github.com/k3s-io/kine
    comment by dilyevsky · 2025-06-19 · in What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
  7. Kine ( https://github.com/k3s-io/kine ) is a shim or an external process (when not k3s) that translates the etcd api to enable compatibility with a database or alternative data store. Kubernetes natively talks etcd, so this translation is…
    comment by nullify88 · 2023-10-12 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
  8. …why this couldn’t run in something like DynamoDB? I feel like the operations required would fit https://github.com/k3s-io/kine/blob/master/pkg/drivers/gener...
    comment by orf · 2023-07-04 · in Goodbye Etcd, Hello PostgreSQL: Running Kubernetes with an SQL Database
  9. …the other implementations! [0]: https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all [1]: https://github.com/k3s-io/kine
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-05-24 · in Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems
  10. …requests use of postgres triggers[2]. [1] https://etcd.io/docs/v3.2/learning/api/#watch-api [2] https://github.com/k3s-io/kine/issues/20
    comment by rektide · 2022-05-12 · in K8s on Pg
  11. https://github.com/k3s-io/kine#readme but it's "caveat emptor" since to the best of my knowledge no one runs conformance tests on top of it
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-05-12 · in K8s on Pg
  12. from this https://github.com/k3s-io/kine it seems like k3s was born out of a rancher labs project called 'kine' that does what you're describing?
    comment by awinter-py · 2021-11-22 · in Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi
  13. yes looks to be polling https://github.com/k3s-io/kine/blob/master/pkg/server/watch....
    comment by h3h3 · 2021-10-12 · in Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
  14. …team replaced Dqlite with an embedded etcd to get high-availability[3]. [1] https://dqlite.io/ [2] https://github.com/k3s-io/kine [3] https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/ha-embed...
    comment by rektide · 2021-06-10 · in Rqlite 6.0: the evolution of a distributed database design